Word: clevelandism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, Columbia, the league's perennial doormat, got a new stadium and still went winless. This season, it's a new coach the Lions have got and the losing tradition should start to change...finally. Coach Jim Garrett left a position with the Cleveland Browns to take the helm at Columbia and it will take all of his 15 years of NFL experience to change the fortunes of a team that has not won a title in 24 years...
Senior Fellow Hugh Calkins '45 retired from Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation after 17 years of service. A replacement for the Cleveland lawyer has yet to be named, and there has been much speculation that the open spot on the exclusive board may be filled for the first time by a minority or a woman...
...president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the only major union boss who supported Ronald Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential bids. In July the Justice Department decided not to prosecute Presser on charges of paying $274,000 to nonworking "ghost employees" at a Teamsters local in Cleveland. Presser's uncle Allen Friedman went to federal prison for allegedly receiving such illegal payments. Federal District Court Judge Sam Bell granted Friedman a new trial last week on the grounds that U.S. prosecutors failed to disclose Presser's role in the case as an FBI informant. Bell also ordered...
...more complicated last week when officials close to the investigation claimed that the FBI had authorized Presser's payments to Friedman and several other ghost employees at Local 507. Washington sources said the FBI reasoned that the phantom payoffs would make it easier for Presser to gather information on Cleveland's organized crime groups. Questions lingered over how much the FBI had told Justice about Presser's secret dealings. The bureau's Office of Professional Responsibility is investigating agents' handling of the affair...
...began in late July when the tan 1980 Toyota station wagon owned by Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul...